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Police say they have no motive or suspects in the fatal shooting of a man in a Hilltop apartment
on Thursday night.

Columbus police were called to a reported shooting at 11:48 p.m. at the Clar Mound Apartments,
2165 W. Mound St., and found James Maynard, 40, dead inside Apt. A. He had been shot more than once
in his upper body.

Maynard did not live in the apartment but did live nearby in the Hilltop area. Records show that
he was released from state prison on Jan. 7 and beginning three years on parole for a burglary
conviction.

Anyone with information on the slaying, the seventh in Columbus this year, is asked to call the
homicide squad at 614-645-4730.